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DONALD

"YOU'RE RUSTLING CATTLE CRIED TEXAS JIM, AND THEIR GUNS

BARKED!

DUCK

DOGGONE IT READ TO YOURSELF)

HOW DO Y' EXPECT ME TO

CONCENTRATE?

196 Wit Dancy radiation

WE'LL WHISPER,

UNCA

DONALD!

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OKAY! SEE THAT Y DO!

QUEZ MUMBLE

STOP!

MUMBLE BUZI-- HALPI CRIED-

--BUIE, DUIZ. HUMBLE--

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February 16, 1940.

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ARGENTINE Derelict Nazi Harbours, Paralysed

DONATION

£20,000 Sent To British

Patriotic Funds.

SPECIAL TO`THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Feb. 15 (UP), The Chairman of the British community's Council in Buenos Aires has sent £20,000 to London.

The money was subscribed by the) British community to British patrio-į

lic funds,

Of this amount £10,000 is being rent to the Lord Mayor of London for the Red Cross Fund and the other £10,000 is going to building loans and the Merchant Service.

An additional £1,000 has bren

By Royal Navy, Are Losing Millions

THEY'RE CUT

OFF FROM

THE WORLD

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HAMBURG and Bremen, two

contributed to Admiral Harwood of the largest ports in the world, tives of casualties aboard is three which are cut off from the rest of

for distribution among the

rcia-

ships who defeated the Graf Spee the world by the British blockade,

It is aemi-oficially announced that

until now the Britial community in are now virtually derelict-har- Buenos Aires has subscribed appro-

ximately £6,000. Further contribu-bours of forgotten ships.

tions is expected to bring the total to over £122,000 by the end of October.

Cotton Board To Be Set Up

Bill Passes Second Reading In Lords

LONDON, Feb. 15 (Router). -The House of Lords to-day

A London agent for several of the leading German shipping| companies said recently that

reports he had received from neutral sources revealed that the traffic of these poris had; dwindled to barge trade. Ware- houses were empty and crancs' idle.

In peace-time Hamburg and

passed the second reading of the Bremen cater for a large proper- Cotton Industry Bill destined to tion of the American passenger promote the exports trude.

Bill, said that exports in the cotton ly 15,000 passengers have

Lord Templemore, introducing the traffic to Europe. Frequent-| trade were especially vital in wur-

time since the exporta of cotton goods been landed in a month at

were greater than any other single Hamburg. Now even this

The Bill provides for the establish-traffic has ceased.

manufacturing industry.

ment of a Cotton Industry Board, In normal times nearly 2,000,- whose main purpose is to assist ex- port trade and also to deal with 000 tons of shipping enter each of these ports every month.

market research and propaganda.

Prices, as far as necessary, would This figure has dropped to a few be controlled by an order made by hundred tons.

the Minister of Supply.

-Lovy-On-Spinnors

The Bill provides for a levy on spinners and also for payments to the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation amounting to one penny in respect of nach 500 pounds of cotton.

Lord Templemore, concluding, sald that the Colton Act of 1939 was found too elaborate in war-time con- ditions.

Voreols Laid Up

More than a dozen vessels of the large fleet of the Nord- deutscher Lloyd are laid up at Bremen. And they cost an average of £1,000 a week to maintain.

This shipping company had six Lord Strabaigi pointed out that we might have to export cotton goods vessels on the stocks when war be

sall out of Bremen flying the German flag.

in bulk as the need for foreign gan. They may never exchange grew, and our necessary imports increased. We might have Hamburg is in + worse position

Fine Work Of Life-Boats

Hello, Mum!.

Hello, Dad!

Here's a happy picture.

it shows what happened at one of the provincial towns to which 5,000 parents of London's evacuated children travelled in special trains for

a one day reunion.

Germany Warns NO

Rumania 'Give Us More Oil,

Or-

5 UP

GERMANY HAS WARNED RUMANIA THAT SHE MUST

Bad Influence DELIVER MORE OIL TO THE REICH. IF RUMANIA FAILS

-Even There!

TO DO SO GERMANY WILL BE "FORCED TO USE OTHER METHODS."

This move, it was reliably learned in Bukarest recently (says Associated Press), is Germany's reply to the Allies' warning IUTLER died at the end of a fieryngainst forcing the British and French controlled oil companies speech and went straight to Heaven. to supply Germany.

Having given the Nazi salute, le

Hitler was so insulted that he made

for purgatory. lie was refused ad-

Nazi representatives, high authorities said, told the Rumanian Government that it was "a matter of life and death" for the Reich to get an ever-increasing volume of of shipments from Rumania, which is Germany's most substantial source of supply.

McGavin of The Mercury Is Dead

to tako far-reaching steps to sell than Biemen. Its organisation Bill on good abroad and the present paralysed. Usually the headquarters expected to be let in straight away. Bill might not be enough. He hoped of the Hamburg-South America Line, but St. Peter sald he had never heard that the Government was already which has 50 vessels, and the Ham-, of any litler. thinking about greater machinery to barg-Amerika Line, which has more help exports in relation to barier and than 100 first-class liners, the port is pre-emption.

now virtually closed by our Navy.

Before the war Hamburg was the mittauer, and decided to try the principal Northern European port. Devil Japanese, Italian and Scandinavian

The Devil was delighted to see vessels called there regularly when outward and Inward bound for him, but when the quest of ad- Britain. Now they come direct to mission was raised he said to Hiller! Britalo.

"Look here, old man, I'might as well. But Hamburg did not rely on this be frank with you. You have senti LONDON, Feb. 13 (Reuter),—Life- boats in Britain have rescued over shipping alone. British liners come so many Germans that, if I let

old minority game here, and before "MEGAVIN of the Mercury" is 1.500 lives since the war began, and lected cargoes there on their way out you fin, you will probably start your

I know It ril be out of a job." the gratitude and admiration of the to the Far East.

The news will bring regret to men Royal Navy for their services has Last Revonua

So Iller went back to 31. Peter, serving in practically every big ship been expressed by the Lords of the

the Royal Navy, for McGavin, Regular calls were made by tho who had in the meantime looked up in Admiralty.

who was 74, had, for 28 years been They state that they are deeply im- Unlon Castle, P. and O., British In-HIller's record. pressed by the fine service of the dia and Brocklebank Lines, and utews of the National Lifeboats, many more leading shipping com- especially those on the East Coast. panies. They know that this work has been carried out in foul weather, high seas use the port facilities of Hamburk elves. and bitter cold, none of which has and Bremen for other industries, but lowered the spirit of courage and it is almost impossible to use the endurance, and that these duties have organisation of a port for anything been performed without fear

or except shipping. thought of self.

Brazilian Diplomat Leaves London

dend.

Rumanian official nervousness is heightened by articles in the London Press Interpreted as meaning that Britain might be forced to withdraw her guarantee to Rumania if King Carol agrees to the Nazi demands.

Nazis Now Plans

This pressure on Rumania (writes the Daily Sketch Diplomatic Corres- pondent) indicates a new orientation at tactics on the part of the German General Staff.

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GERMAN ARMADA

BLIZZARDS IN REICH

"General Winter's” Disorganisation

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Feb. 15 (UP).- There have been renowed bliz zards during the past few days, with snowfalls heavier than anything known in Germany for.: many decades.

Delays on the main railways are, in many cases, several hours. At Bertin's terminal the authorities In most cases are refusing any Informa- tion about the times of trains or when they are expceled to arrive.

Snow and ice have also caused considerable delays on Bertin's cler- Truled suburban railways and truby- way systems. In the suburbs, the snow is three feet deep on ibo roads. Thousands of Jews mobilised by the authorities are working in gungs shovelling the snow to clear ito streets in the centre of the city, Many theatres here have been closed down during the last fow days, pparently owing" to tho' 'manage- ments' inability to heat them."

In an effort to relieve the coal shortage the Relch Commissar for Cand Distribution has ordered coal |dicaters to give preference in delive- (ries firstly, to families with children up to two years then to families with four or more children,

The German press in the last few days has been admitting the coal shortage and there is widespread

| grumbling about 11.- ---

The press has urged the people to be reasonable however, and to under- stand the reason for the shortage.

Now York Snowbound NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuter),- Thirty-eight thousand street cleaners in New York are digging the city out of an eight-foot snowfall.

Traffle is heavily disrupted and thousands of people are unable to get to their offices.

Eight people have been killed in the metropolitan area,

AIE

Night In Theatre

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (Reuter) - At Providence, Rhode Island, 000 patrons, of cinema who were snow- bound accepted the

manager's in- vitation to stay in the theatre for the night.

Altogether 36 deaths have resulted from the weather conditions in the

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT |castern states.

American Blizzards

I ESTIMATE the present front-

line air strength of the Ger-Ten people have been killed at Bos- mans at 4,275 machines.

By front line strength I mean the number of machines the Germans can keep in the air, allowing for wastage by balle, or accident or obsolescence,

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (Router).—

ton, scores injured and thousands marooned as the result of the worst buzzard New England has CX- perienced for years,

Conditions are chaotle: the streets are blocked with thousands of strand- ed molor cara. The fish market, which is the largest in the world, is closed,

Men are ski-ing through the streets. Here is my detailed list: Bombers,

1,700; dive bombers, 351; Bghters, Mountainous snowdrifts, throughout 1,200; long-range reconnaissanes the countryside are rendering maay aircraft, 400, army co-operative roads impassable. aircraft, 300; coastal command air craft. 300.

should explain that the dive-bomber

SOFIA CABINET

CRISIS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

is a machine used only for pre- cision bombing, and against vitally important military objectives. The SOFIA, Feb. 15 (Domel)-The pilot sets his machine, into a fixed | Bulgarian Government headed by M. course, and dives along, that line | G. Klosscivanoff, the Prime Minister on to Dis target. Just as a fighter and Foreign Minister, to-day resign- with axed runs flies in a line on toed en bloc

his bomber quarry.

even more.

It is understood that the Cabinet, which has been steering a midway:

The number of reserves behind each course between the pro-Soviet and categors of German machines. Is the pro-Italian factions, has been anybody'

guess.

I should my forced to retreat due to the recent there are two reserves for every rise of pro-Soviet induence as a re- front line unit, and there may be mult of the conclusion of the com

mercial, and aviation

agreements with the Soviet Union.

Difference Of Opinion PARIS, Feb. 15 (Rouler)—Accord- ing to a Softa dispatch, it is thought that the difference of opinion be- the Prime Minister, M.

The immediate danger of an in- vesion of the Netherlands is believed to be over, though it may revive.

Meanwhile the Germans are mak- ing preparations in other directions.

Among these plans are the military In the end he summoned Stalin chief officer of the training ship

If it was decided to attack Scan- birthplace of naval heroes half a inhabited planet, where they could

century ago. He was known to some dinavia. In this connection It la throughout the naval and mercantile mand are awaiting the development

of the war in Finland. feets of Britain.

The Balkan situation is obscure, and Germany is apparently, taking measures in the expectation of being

ment.

and put the two of them on an un.Mercury, and first joined that famous measures which would be necessary (Now as to output, I estimate that the

The Narls are trying desperately tontinue their old rame by them- 12,000 boys, who are now seniterect¡ probable that the German High Com-

Milions of pounds la revenue are being lost by their harbour authorfiles in tonnage dnes and taxes...

In the last war the German Navy

LONDON,: Feb. 15 (Reuter)-On caused us to divert a great deal of

the occasion of the impending retire the activities of our warships from

From "Excelsior."

Censor's Secrets Warning To able to exploit subsequent develop

School Magazines

SCHOOL magazinca publishing news of "old boys" serving ment and return to Brazil of His Ex- the blockade weapon. To-day the with the Forces may unwittingly betray information of value to

do atory is different. cellency Senhor Raul Regis

Each month Hamburg and Bremen the enemy. Oliveira, o.c.v.0, 0.0.2., Brazillan Am- bassador to London since 1926 and lose 200,000 tons of cargo between dozen of the Diplomatie Corps. Prin- them which now goes to other mar cess Alles of Athlone to clay pre-kets. sented His. Excellency with a set of diamond cuff-links.

ROOSEVELT DIVORCE

Ilis wife, Dona Gina, was presented

New York, Feb. 15. with a diamond and ruby brooch.

According to the New York Times, These presentations were made on behalf of their many friends in Lon-Mr. James Roosevelt, the President's eldest son, and his wife are planning Callforals Those present Included Lady a divorce action. In the Asquith and Lady (Aunten) Chan-Courta. The grounds for the suit are berinin

not known-Reuter.

don.

The Intest reliable information from_that_area is that the projected meeting of the Balkan Entente at the beginning of February is not likely to take place as sufficient identity of interest between the Balkan Sintes is not yet established,

Watching And Waiting

It is obvious that Germany is watching developments on all eldes before taking any decision.

German factories are steadily · do- livering 750 aircraft a month,

Not more than 500 of these are fight-tween

ing aircraft. In any well-organised Klossalvanoff, and the Minister of air force at least one in three a'r Agriculture, M. Adrianov, regarding planes would be for reconnaissance the candidature of deputies during the Jest Legislative elections led M.

· or training.

Kiosselvanoff to resign.

Certain political circles in Soft These latter airplanes have no fight-connect the crisis with the arrival ing power. They are cheaply and there of M. Popoff, the Bulgarian quickly bullt of fabric, and they Minister to Belgrade, who' was sum lack runs, bomb-racks and even moned to Soft by cable on Wednes complete sets of instraments. They day.

have no more military use than a cross Channel steamer without

M

runs, armour, of complete navigat- FRANCE INTERNS

27 CZECHS

ing Apparatus wenld have in

MME. CHIANG HERE

naval engagement. It is possible, for instance, that scrutiny of a number of lists of "old boys" who are serving or have lost thair lives in the

PARIS, Feb. At the same time hor agents are

15. (Reuter), Services may enable the enemy'

Twenty-seven foreigners of Czecho busy exploiting any difficulties that! to gather information of the any ship, to any battalion of other arise between Great Britain and the

To undergo medical treatment, Slovak origin have been sent to unit within the regiment, or to any major neutral Powers such as the Madame Chiang Kai-shok, wife of on a charge of carrying on activities concentration camp near Rambouillet battle order of the Forces....

command, unless such particulars United Sta

States and Japan.

the Generalissimo, accompanied by dangerous to the country. In a leller sent to headmasters, the have previously been included in the A report from Prague says thinther adviser, Mr. W. II. Donaki, have

They were employed in National ordem have been given for the print arrived in, the Colony. Deputy Director of Censorship Divi-omcial ensunity Hist.

Defence factories. It is stated that slón, Mr. B. 5. Townroe, says that in

It is also requested, that no in- ing of 35,000. maps, covering the

It is not known how long Madame they refused to comply with a sum auch lists the name, rank, and reformation should be published which whole of Hungary and Rumania, for giment of any person inay be given, would reveal the locality where the use of the Gerpian Army. They Chlang will stay in Hongkong on this mons to serve in the Crecho-Slovak but no reference should be made to members of the Forces are serving..

visit, which in the first for some time. I Legion in France, are to be ready by February 15.

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